This week, we’re featuring some favorite ideas for eggplant, including moussaka and homemade baba ganoush! There’s also grilled pork chops & okra with sweet corn polenta, za’atar sheepshead filets and blueberry overnight oat & chia pancakes!
Read MoreWe are making it through another summer in the Gulf South, but it’s a marathon, not a sprint!
Read MoreEven with some fruits and veggies going out of season, it’s still a great time to eat local! Okra, eggplant and various peppers are the prime veggies right now, with tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, radishes, squashes and sweet corn hanging on, too. Peaches are holding steady and may be joined by Asian pears this week! We’re stocked up and grassfed and pastured meats, Gulf seafood and plant-based proteins, too, plus hummus, heirloom grains, preserves, ferments and more.
Read MoreA weekly roundup of what’s coming our of our little kitchen at Local Cooling Farms featuring as many ingredients from our regional foodshed as possible! There’s roast beef with horseradish sauce, marinated beet salad, tempeh sushi bowls, maple tamarind goat ribs, coconut tomato farro and more!
Read MoreHealthy soil holds more water, which is a good thing when there’s a drought and when there’s a lot of rain! We have noticed far less runoff recently as our soil and forage continues to improve and our ponds don’t fill up as fast. Plus, a story about our very well trained and trusting goats.
Read MoreIt’s time for the heat loving veggies to shine with plenty of eggplant, okra and peppers in stock or on their way to be delivered this week. Peaches and sweet corn are holding steady and we should also more figs, tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash and zucchini! Lots of our grassfed beef, pastured pork and pastured chicken were restocked, so there’s finally more filets and ribeyes, pork stir fry strips and whole chickens, among many other cuts! Fresh goat or cow dairy arrives on Tuesdays as usual and we also restocked Church Alley’s cold brew and chai concentrate and simple syrups.
Read MoreA weekly roundup of what’s coming our of our little kitchen at Local Cooling Farms featuring as many ingredients from our regional foodshed as possible! There’s caveman beef meatballs with eggplant and cherry tomatoes, homemade paneer korma and sea island pea dal, canestri pesto pasta with clams, sausage and sweet corn, baguette French toast and sweet potato brownies!
Read MoreDespite all the lush forage this time of year, this week we gave both the goats and the cattle access to internal roads and ditches for some brush maintenance, lawn mowing and manure dropping to make sure all the soil on our land reaches its full capacity in water holding capacity and carbon sequestering!
Read MoreMelons, figs and tomatoes are really coming into their prime, plus we restocked delicious and refreshing Gingerbooch beverages and tasty organic pecan butter and glazed pecans. There’s a few sale gallons of whole milk from last week, along with plenty of beautiful organically grown veggies, pastured meats, Gulf seafood, hummus, rice and grits, coffee, pickles and jams and lots more. melons and figs are in their prime, along with cherry, beefsteak and heirloom tomatoes. Peaches are still wonderfully abundant and crazy good, too.
Read MoreA weekly round up cooking ideas featuring seasonal produce, meat, seafood and dairy from our Southeast Louisiana foodshed! There’s goat kebabs, shrimp fried rice, blackened snapper sandwiches with remoulade slaw, roasted padron pepper dip, fermented cucumber relish and a peanut butter and jelly crisp!
Read MoreIt’s the season of exploding forage, so the ruminants (our beef cattle and goats) are eating as much as they can, but we clip the other fields as well, including ahead of the laying hens to maximize the quality of forage growing for the rest of the year and to lay down a bunch of those woody plants as mulch on top of the soil to help build humus.
Read MoreIt’s peak summer fruit season especially with fresh figs, melons, blackberries and blueberries and peaches! And our grass-finished ground beef is back, we’re continuing a sale on select meat cuts and there’s lots of colorful vegetables, too, with various tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, carrots, sweet corn, radishes, beets, squashes, potatoes and more.
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